Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Current Events

  • Disturbing

    Here are a couple of comments that I just recieved regarding my opinion on the Terri Schiavo Case. From Enki: The man Michael is a murderer, a clever executor who has diverted what he has to have hidden to cast into the hot issues where the bunch of idiotic lawyers and judges have spent their…

  • Poll: Evangelicals Oppose Gov’t on Schiavo

    Yahoo! News – Poll: Evangelicals Oppose Gov’t on Schiavo More than two-thirds of people who describe themselves as evangelicals and conservatives disapprove of the intervention by Congress and President Bush (news – web sites) in the case of the Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a national debate. Wow! this is interesting….

  • A Blow to the Rule of Law

    The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: A Blow to the Rule of Law Republicans have traditionally championed respect for the delicate balance the founders created. But in the Schiavo case, and in the battle to stop the Democratic filibusters of judicial nominations, President Bush and his Congressional allies have begun to enunciate a…

  • Schiavo Case Exposes Political Divide in U.S.

    Yahoo! News – Schiavo Case Exposes Political Divide in U.S. Although Republicans publicly rejected any ulterior motives, a memo surfaced over the weekend calling the Schiavo case “a great political issue” and saying that Christian conservatives would be “excited” by the Senate debate. That is exactly what this is. Republicans don’t give a rat’s ass…

  • Congress Announces Deal in Schiavo Case

    Yahoo! News – Congress Announces Deal in Schiavo Case As a deal in Congress was worked out to have federal courts decide Terri Schiavo‘s fate, emotions swelled outside the brain-damaged woman’s hospice room Saturday, with protesters arrested after they symbolically tried to smuggle in bread and water on her second day without a feeding tube.…